Dr.Damadian receives The Benjamin Franklin
Medal and The Bower Award for Business Leadership cited
for his contribution to the origination of MR scanning.
"In 1969 Raymond Damadian first proposed the idea of
using nuclear magnetic resonance technology to scan the
human body externally for early signs of malignancy. He
went on to design and build the first MR scanner that produced
the first human image in 1977."

2004 Benjamin Franklin Medal
in Physics
"for the development of liquid crystal displays"

2004
Benjamin Franklin Medal
in Mechanical Engineering
"for his fundamental research on the production
of graphite whiskers...high strength carbon fibers"

2004
Benjamin Franklin Medal
in Electrical Engineering
"for his invention of multiphase piezoelectric
transducers and their spatial architecture, which
revolutionized the field of acoustic imaging"

2004 Bower Award for Business Leadership
"for his development and commercialization of
magnetic resonance imaging...which has transformed
the diagnosis and treatment of disease"

2004 Benjamin Franklin Medal
in Chemistry
"for his pioneering contributions in the field
of electron transfer in metalloproteins"

2004
Benjamin Franklin Medal
in Computer and Cognitive Science
"for his contributions to the understanding of
computational complexity"

2004
Bower Award and Prize
for Achievement in Science
"for his pioneering discoveries that both founded
and greatly advanced the field of neuro-genetics"

Robert
B. Meyer, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Physics
Brandeis University,
Waltham, MA

Roger
Bacon, Ph.D.

Amoco Corporation and Union Carbide, Retired
Oberlin, OH

Robert
E. Newnham, Ph.D.

Professor, Materials Research Laboratory,
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA